10 Steps to Coordinated Care for an Aging Loved One It takes a village to care for an older adult especially if one lives with several chronic conditions. Experts in caregiving recommend to family caregivers to start planning early, long before a parent or older relative needs assistance, because if...
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The Benefits of Grateful Living
Why It is Important to Be Grateful (from Sixty and Me) Kristi Nelson is the executive director of a Network for Grateful Living. I was particularly interested in the topic of gratitude because – of all the traits I observe in older adults living a quality life – that one consistently...
Bacteria in Gut May One Day Slow Aging-Smilecast 112
Want to Slow Aging? Check Your Gut! Slow aging might be possible one day with supplements derived from gut bacteria. Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have identified bacterial genes and compounds that extend the life of and also slow...
Our Friday Song of the Week – Bad to the Bone
Our Friday Song of the Week – Bad to the Bone
Multitasking Effectively and What It Means to Brain Health-Smilecast 111
Effective Multitasking Can Be Learned Although “multitasking” is a popular buzzword, research shows that only 2% of the population actually multitasks efficiently. Most of us just shift back and forth between different tasks, a process that requires our brains to refocus time and time again — and reduces overall productivity...
Downsizing – What to Do with Our Parent’s Stuff
#DOWNSIZING STUFF IT! HOW TO SENSIBLY DEAL WITH OUR PARENTS’ POSSESSIONS AS WE AGE As Baby Boomers grow older and start moving to smaller dwellings, their children are faced with a dilemma – parents’ possessions. Furniture, keepsakes and heirlooms that parents want to pass on are often not wanted by the...
Ninety-Two Percent of Caregivers Are Financial Caregivers
Ninety-Two Percent of Caregivers Are Financial Caregivers – Coordinating and Managing Finances for Loved Ones, and Spending $190 Billion on Them Annually A Merrill Lynch study, conducted in partnership with Age Wave, finds that the 40 million1 family caregivers in the U.S. spend $190 billion per year on their adult...
Extra-virgin Olive Oil Preserves Memory & Protects Brain-Smilecast 110
Temple University Study Provide More Proof of Benefits of Extra-virgin Olive Oil and the Mediterranean Diet The Mediterranean diet, rich in plant-based foods, is associated with a variety of health benefits, including a lower incidence of dementia. Now, researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM)...
Our Friday Song of the Week – Tush
Our Friday Song of the Week – Tush
Senior Sex-Folks Having Sex 1x a Week > Cognitive Function-Smilecast 109
Senior Sex – More Frequency, Better Outcomes New research found that older adults who reported having sex at least once each week got better scores on certain cognitive tests than those who reported having it only once per month or not at all. You can read the full story on senior...